Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / K.T. McFarland | 06-26-26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The great Kat McFarland, national security expert, former Trump administration official.
- 0:04Speaker 2: And Kat, we've been one greatly.
- 0:06Speaker 1: And one great lady. Always good for radio and TV.
- 0:10Speaker 1: By the way, And Kat, this is Jake Novak.
- 0:14Speaker 3: Listen.
- 0:14Speaker 1: We've been talking all morning. Our theme of the morning,
- 0:16Speaker 1: America under attack. It isn't just bombs and terrorists and
- 0:19Speaker 1: things like that. It's also fentanyl, it's campaign finance, law breaking.
- 0:25Speaker 1: I mean, how much of this is even on the
- 0:27Speaker 1: radar of defense people and national security folks.
- 0:31Speaker 2: Well, everybody should swim in their own lane. I mean,
- 0:33Speaker 2: the Defense Department is worried about the military threats to
- 0:35Speaker 2: the United States, the intelligence community, intelligence threats, homeland security, homelanders.
- 0:40Speaker 2: But they all have one theme in common, right, which
- 0:43Speaker 2: is to destroy the United States, either from within or
- 0:46Speaker 2: from without, financially, economically, militarily, socially, politically. And it's I
- 0:53Speaker 2: think that's one of the greatest things that President Trump
- 0:56Speaker 2: is doing, and doing it in our two hundred and
- 0:58Speaker 2: fiftieth year. We're proud to get make America clean, make
- 1:01Speaker 2: America beautiful, make America proud, wave the flag, don't be ashamed.
- 1:06Speaker 2: We've been sort of coddled in or sort of plowed
- 1:08Speaker 2: into thinking there's something wrong with America, and America is
- 1:11Speaker 2: in decline, and America is in decline because we deserve
- 1:14Speaker 2: to be in decline. That's the Obama mindset. You know,
- 1:18Speaker 2: we're a fading nation, but that's because we deserve to be,
- 1:21Speaker 2: because we're fundamentally evil. Whatever the reasoning they have, but
- 1:25Speaker 2: it's great to see someone who is unapologetically beating his
- 1:29Speaker 2: just for America.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Katie, I'm going to go in with you. Let's copyright
- 1:33Speaker 1: and trademark this slogan. Pride is the first line of defense.
- 1:36Speaker 2: What do you think absolutely pride is the first line
- 1:39Speaker 2: and that false pride, justified pride, all the things that
- 1:43Speaker 2: the United States has done, all the things that the
- 1:45Speaker 2: United States is currently doing, and all the things that
- 1:48Speaker 2: the United States is capable of doing, not only for ourselves,
- 1:51Speaker 2: for our people, but for the world. I mean, just
- 1:53Speaker 2: think about the conversation we're not having right now. We're
- 1:56Speaker 2: not talking about Hamas, we're not talking about the Palace
- 1:59Speaker 2: inn in Wars, We're not talking about something that has
- 2:02Speaker 2: been foremost on everybody's foreign policy mind for decades. Hamas
- 2:08Speaker 2: has been tamed the Palestinian areas Gaza that's being rebuilt,
- 2:13Speaker 2: and it's been rebuilt because President Trump forged in his
- 2:19Speaker 2: first term an alliance, an economic alliance, a trade alliance
- 2:23Speaker 2: between Israel and the Gulf Arab States and the United States.
- 2:27Speaker 2: The result of that was prosperity for those nations. And
- 2:30Speaker 2: then when it came down to Gaza, another fight in Gaza,
- 2:35Speaker 2: yet another October seventh. What happened Those same countries that
- 2:38Speaker 2: were in the Abraham of Chorus at President Trump created
- 2:40Speaker 2: in the first term, they then have risen to the
- 2:44Speaker 2: occasion in a security relationship, and they've also sidelined Hamas.
- 2:50Speaker 2: So it's just one thing after another. The fact that
- 2:53Speaker 2: we're not talking about the border anymore. The border was
- 2:56Speaker 2: an open sore, and yet that's been solved. I think
- 3:00Speaker 2: that in a year from now, we're not going to
- 3:02Speaker 2: be talking about Iran. We'll be talking about something else
- 3:04Speaker 2: for sure, but I think the Iran war will be solved.
- 3:07Speaker 2: We're not going to be talking about the Strait. We're
- 3:09Speaker 2: probably not going to be talking about oil because it'll
- 3:11Speaker 2: be so cheap it won't even be an issue.
- 3:14Speaker 4: Katie, this is Fernando Matteo. Thank you for being on
- 3:17Speaker 4: with us. I want you to know that as an
- 3:20Speaker 4: immigrant to the United States and as the US citizen
- 3:25Speaker 4: of the United States, I am very proud to be here.
- 3:28Speaker 4: And I think that most immigrants that are here, that
- 3:31Speaker 4: came here legally, that came here looking for that American dream,
- 3:34Speaker 4: still hold the flag very high. I think that it's
- 3:38Speaker 4: foreign nations, socialist nations that want to infiltrate the US,
- 3:43Speaker 4: that want to downplay our power, the wellness of the
- 3:47Speaker 4: United States. Yes, President Trump, President Trump has made America
- 3:52Speaker 4: great again, but guess what. America has always been the
- 3:56Speaker 4: nation that every country envies and every immigrant wants to
- 4:00Speaker 4: be in. So you know, we carry it with a
- 4:03Speaker 4: lot of pride.
- 4:05Speaker 2: Well as you should. You know, the Iron Curtain, the
- 4:08Speaker 2: wall between the East and West and Europe during the
- 4:11Speaker 2: Cold War, that was built to keep people in, not
- 4:14Speaker 2: to keep people out. And the walls that we're building
- 4:17Speaker 2: are because people want to come in illegally, and it's
- 4:22Speaker 2: the one direction everybody wants to come to is to
- 4:25Speaker 2: rush to America. I want to talk to someone in
- 4:27Speaker 2: the Middle East, you know who's involved in Afghanistan and
- 4:31Speaker 2: some bad guys in Afghanistan, And he said, you know something,
- 4:34Speaker 2: if the United States declared Afghanistan the fifty first state.
- 4:37Speaker 2: We'd all be thrilled. It's nobody can quite figure out
- 4:42Speaker 2: why is America so exceptional. I think what happens is that,
- 4:45Speaker 2: as you said, you're an immigrant, you came to this country,
- 4:48Speaker 2: probably with nothing, and you've made yourself a great success.
- 4:52Speaker 2: We in America is where you come to reinvent yourself.
- 4:54Speaker 2: Or even if you're already here and you don't like
- 4:56Speaker 2: your lot and like you reinvent yourself. But the difference
- 4:59Speaker 2: is America as a nation, we reinvent ourselves as a
- 5:03Speaker 2: nation where we overthrow the ruling class of the day.
- 5:07Speaker 2: We do it at the electoral We knew it at
- 5:09Speaker 2: the ballot box, and we put in new leaders, new policies,
- 5:13Speaker 2: and we then become a better country. I mean, if
- 5:16Speaker 2: you think of the Industrial Revolution, the political changes that happened,
- 5:19Speaker 2: then we throughout the old ruling establishment elected new leaders
- 5:24Speaker 2: who then took us to another dimension. If you look
- 5:26Speaker 2: at the Reagan Revolution, well the country was gotten moribund,
- 5:30Speaker 2: and the economy was bad, and the foreign policy was bad.
- 5:33Speaker 2: We got rid of Jimmy Carter and the old guys,
- 5:35Speaker 2: put in new people, new system, thriving again. And we're
- 5:38Speaker 2: the only country that reinvents itself as a nation. Every
- 5:42Speaker 2: other country has a It rises, it shines, it has
- 5:45Speaker 2: its moment in the sun. You know, the Roman Empire,
- 5:48Speaker 2: the British Empire, all the empires of the world. And
- 5:52Speaker 2: yet they then finally go downhill and they crash and
- 5:55Speaker 2: you never hear from them again. Who talks about the
- 5:57Speaker 2: Portuguese empires today?
- 5:59Speaker 4: Nobody.
- 6:00Speaker 2: The American Empire, rise, shine, wobble a little, reinvent ourselves
- 6:05Speaker 2: and then rise again even higher.
- 6:08Speaker 3: Katie. It's Richard Warmberg. Good morning. So yesterday Supreme Court
- 6:14Speaker 3: issued a decision eliminating temporary protective status the immigrants from
- 6:18Speaker 3: Haiti and Syria because they were here for years and
- 6:21Speaker 3: years and years and it was a violation by the
- 6:23Speaker 3: Biden administration of the protective status rules, and the Supreme
- 6:28Speaker 3: Court sol through it. Now, Governor Hope of New York
- 6:31Speaker 3: has just announced that because of this Supreme Court decision,
- 6:34Speaker 3: this will cripple New York State's healthcare system. Does this
- 6:38Speaker 3: make any sense to you at all?
- 6:40Speaker 2: No, you would think it's the opposite, right, I mean,
- 6:43Speaker 2: you would think the people who came in for quote,
- 6:45Speaker 2: temporary safety and then stayed forever, have not been people
- 6:50Speaker 2: who have necessarily contributed to the economy that the commonwealth
- 6:54Speaker 2: are people who have been taking from the public health system,
- 6:57Speaker 2: and now if they're no longer protected, they have to
- 6:59Speaker 2: go home. You would think, if anything, it would be
- 7:01Speaker 2: a savings.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Could you explain to our listeners what this temporary system
- 7:06Speaker 3: was well about and why the Supreme Court was correctness decision?
- 7:10Speaker 2: Okay, so there's it was. I forget which administration it
- 7:13Speaker 2: was put in current or somewhere by a Democrat administration
- 7:17Speaker 2: saying we'll give temporary assistance to people who were fleeing
- 7:21Speaker 2: oppression in their countries. Not meant to be permanent, not
- 7:24Speaker 2: meant to be citizenship, not meant to be a foreverything.
- 7:27Speaker 2: It was like a safe haven that we were offering.
- 7:30Speaker 2: And it was particularly countries what Haiti was the one
- 7:34Speaker 2: country particularly and cleaning either oppression or economic hardship. You know,
- 7:39Speaker 2: Katie always gets his with these massive natural disasters. They
- 7:44Speaker 2: could come to the United States, no questions asked, stay
- 7:47Speaker 2: here for a while, tell tell they got their act together,
- 7:50Speaker 2: till their country got the act together, and then they
- 7:52Speaker 2: go home. It was never a back door opening for citizenship.
- 7:56Speaker 2: And it was also never vetted. So so by a
- 7:59Speaker 2: strogg a pen Barack Obama, Biden or Jimmy Carter before
- 8:03Speaker 2: him would let in one hundred thousand, two hundred thousand
- 8:07Speaker 2: temporary residents who could come and take advantage of the
- 8:11Speaker 2: safe haven in the United States. But it got abused
- 8:14Speaker 2: because as people wanted to go out here didn't want
- 8:16Speaker 2: to leave. Not only were they receiving social benefits, social
- 8:19Speaker 2: welfare benefits, but they thought a better opportunity here. Now,
- 8:24Speaker 2: were they following any of the you know, stand in line,
- 8:27Speaker 2: wait your turn, immigrate to the United States rules. No,
- 8:30Speaker 2: they jumped the queue and they tried to stay permanently
- 8:33Speaker 2: ahead of the queue. And that's what this decision was about.
- 8:37Speaker 1: Katie. We're also talking about something else here, and that
- 8:41Speaker 1: is our elections. And look, we have to have secure elections.
- 8:48Speaker 1: And I know you said everyone should swim in their
- 8:50Speaker 1: own lane, but is it time for a unified special
- 8:56Speaker 1: effort among starting with the Pentagon just because there are
- 8:59Speaker 1: as of this that are military. I mean, we do
- 9:03Speaker 1: have military funded terrorist groups and paramilitary groups like Cosbola
- 9:07Speaker 1: that we know are funding operations in this country. I mean,
- 9:10Speaker 1: is it really a swim in your only is this
- 9:12Speaker 1: just something for the FBI to do, just something for
- 9:14Speaker 1: homeland security or is there a Pentagon aspect to some
- 9:17Speaker 1: of this.
- 9:20Speaker 2: So many of these things, as you point out, really
- 9:22Speaker 2: are now multi dimensional. When I was in the White
- 9:26Speaker 2: House and we would sit in the Situation Room and
- 9:28Speaker 2: be talking about a national security issue, but you would
- 9:31Speaker 2: often have a representative from the Justice Department or the
- 9:34Speaker 2: Treasury Department. You expect to see representatives them from the services,
- 9:38Speaker 2: from the Pentagon, from the State Department, from the Intelligence services.
- 9:43Speaker 2: But because everything is sort of interwoven now, they need
- 9:49Speaker 2: to be present. They're stakeholders in the issue. If you
- 9:52Speaker 2: look at what we've just done with Operation Epic Fury
- 9:56Speaker 2: and then Operation Economic Fury, the one two the United
- 10:00Speaker 2: States was able to do militarily against Iran, Iran's military,
- 10:05Speaker 2: against Iran's proxies, but then the two punch was as
- 10:10Speaker 2: the Operation Epic Fury, the blockade of the Strait, then
- 10:15Speaker 2: that kind of morphed into Economic Fury, and that's when
- 10:18Speaker 2: the Treasury Department took over. Where the Treasury Department could
- 10:22Speaker 2: have sanctioned assets, could find bank accounts, could find hidden
- 10:26Speaker 2: bank accounts, could break into cryptocurrency money laundering the Iranians
- 10:30Speaker 2: would do. And so that's a good example why you
- 10:33Speaker 2: really you swim in your own lane, you have your
- 10:35Speaker 2: own areas of responsibility, but then you meet together and
- 10:39Speaker 2: in the person of the president, president's the only one
- 10:41Speaker 2: who really is the responsible overall for everything. If you're
- 10:44Speaker 2: the Secretary of the Treasure, responsible for treasure, you're not
- 10:47Speaker 2: responsible for army training. If you're the Secretary of War,
- 10:51Speaker 2: you're not responsible for finding errant bank accounts that are
- 10:55Speaker 2: where money Iranian money is hidden in offshore accounts.
- 10:58Speaker 1: We're speaking to the Great Katie McFarlane, a great lady
- 11:02Speaker 1: according to John cas Matitis and everyone else who meets you.
- 11:05Speaker 1: Kat I want to talk a little bit more now
- 11:06Speaker 1: about military operations, because the folks who have decided to
- 11:10Speaker 1: stop paying attention to some of the amazing things that
- 11:13Speaker 1: the US and the Israeli armed forces were doing in
- 11:16Speaker 1: this war are missing some really amazing moments. This all
- 11:19Speaker 1: be on the Military Channel, Discovery Channel one day and
- 11:22Speaker 1: animated documentaries. But you know, we saw the Israeli defense
- 11:25Speaker 1: forces surround hes Bella's kind of version of the Pentagon,
- 11:28Speaker 1: the Alitayra Ridge, which is an underground tunnel network with massive,
- 11:32Speaker 1: massive technology built for them by the Iranians. So what
- 11:35Speaker 1: happened to So, as far as I know, the Israelis
- 11:37Speaker 1: were told to stand down, but they haven't stopped surrounding
- 11:40Speaker 1: the area. They've just been told not to go in.
- 11:42Speaker 1: Is that what you're understanding is as well?
- 11:44Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is a complicated thing, that dance that
- 11:47Speaker 2: the president has to like hurting cats. Right, if we
- 11:51Speaker 2: had our drivers, Israel would just go in destroy has
- 11:53Speaker 2: Bella be done with it? One less scourge on the world,
- 11:58Speaker 2: But the golf Arabs. We also have to keep the
- 12:00Speaker 2: golf Arabs involved because the golf Arabs, whether it's starting
- 12:03Speaker 2: out with the Abraham Accords, which was an economic treaty,
- 12:06Speaker 2: then it's morphed into security relationship. Now hopefully as we're
- 12:10Speaker 2: dealing with the Iran or the Abraham Accords greatly expand
- 12:14Speaker 2: and all of the countries in the region join them again,
- 12:18Speaker 2: initially as a trading mechanism, as an economic vehicle, but
- 12:22Speaker 2: ultimately potentially like a NATO military alliance of the entire
- 12:27Speaker 2: region that would include the golf Arabs, Israel, and the
- 12:30Speaker 2: United States. The golf Arabs have their own interests. They
- 12:34Speaker 2: don't like the proxies any more than anybody else does.
- 12:37Speaker 2: But what they're more concerned with is what's the response
- 12:41Speaker 2: to them. They live in the neighborhood. So, for example,
- 12:43Speaker 2: when President Trump and Operation Epic Theory we left, let's
- 12:47Speaker 2: say it's about twenty five percent of the military capability
- 12:51Speaker 2: of Iran intact, the Arab golf Arabs said, well, if
- 12:56Speaker 2: you go any further, Iran is going to start attacking
- 12:59Speaker 2: our decel onization plans, our energy infrastructure. Iran is going
- 13:04Speaker 2: to send the drones into the Saudi Arabia refineries, and
- 13:09Speaker 2: then it's going to be economic chaos, not only for
- 13:12Speaker 2: the world, but most directly for US. So what President Trump,
- 13:15Speaker 2: I think is trying to do is to walk that
- 13:17Speaker 2: narrow line. Keep the golf Arabs alongside with us, keep
- 13:21Speaker 2: Israel alongside with us, destroy Iran, diminish Iran, degreade Iran
- 13:25Speaker 2: to the point where we get Iran is no longer aid,
- 13:28Speaker 2: no longer has nuclear weapons, but ultimately no longer is
- 13:31Speaker 2: a threat to the region and therefore the world.
- 13:34Speaker 4: Katie, this is Fernando Matteo. For those listeners that don't
- 13:37Speaker 4: know who Katie McFarland is. She's a former national security
- 13:41Speaker 4: advisor during the first Trump administration, and we're honored to
- 13:45Speaker 4: have you. My question to you is, we know that
- 13:48Speaker 4: every third world country, when they go out to vote
- 13:52Speaker 4: for their president or their legislators, they have to carry
- 13:55Speaker 4: an ID, They have to ID themselves before they vote.
- 14:00Speaker 4: Why is it that we are having certain factions of
- 14:04Speaker 4: our government, of our parties that refuse to do the
- 14:10Speaker 4: same here in the United States. We need to know
- 14:13Speaker 4: that you are here legally and that you can legally
- 14:15Speaker 4: vote for a candidate. We don't understand why if third
- 14:20Speaker 4: world countries are doing it, why can't the United States
- 14:24Speaker 4: of America do it?
- 14:26Speaker 2: But it's even worse than that. It's not only you
- 14:28Speaker 2: can go up to a polling place on election day
- 14:31Speaker 2: with no identification and vote. It's all the mail in balance.
- 14:36Speaker 2: You know, we'res in State of California's fraud pure fraud coulfront,
- 14:41Speaker 2: and it's designed. It's designed to keep certain political parties
- 14:44Speaker 2: in power forever. It's designed to not have fair elections.
- 14:48Speaker 2: What was the open border all about in the Biden administration.
- 14:51Speaker 2: It wasn't a humanitarian concern. It's because they thought well,
- 14:54Speaker 2: we're not winning elections. Republicans are winning elections. But guess
- 14:58Speaker 2: what if we get twenty million new people in America,
- 15:01Speaker 2: give them benefits, give them voting rights, we have twenty
- 15:05Speaker 2: new million Democrat voters. So the whole thing is a fraud,
- 15:09Speaker 2: especially on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the
- 15:11Speaker 2: United States. It is so un American. I always saw it,
- 15:15Speaker 2: by the way, Bernanda, that the best way you could
- 15:17Speaker 2: deal with the identification thing and the voting polls for
- 15:21Speaker 2: one day, federalize all voting stations, all polling places, because
- 15:26Speaker 2: what to get into a federal building. You've got to
- 15:29Speaker 2: show an idea.
- 15:31Speaker 1: Hey, Katie, let's talk about the humanitarian aspect of our
- 15:35Speaker 1: armed forces. I'm looking at video as we all are
- 15:37Speaker 1: of this terrible situation in Venezuela. You know, let's bring
- 15:41Speaker 1: it back full circle. Because we were talking about having pride,
- 15:43Speaker 1: and let pride be the first line of defense in
- 15:45Speaker 1: our love for America and protection of America. The US
- 15:48Speaker 1: military is going to be playing a role and saving
- 15:50Speaker 1: a lot of lives over the next few weeks, isn't it.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Yes, definitely, And because the United States military has capabilities
- 15:57Speaker 2: nobody else has. I mean start with things like we
- 15:59Speaker 2: have ships that are able to go into an area
- 16:03Speaker 2: and their full hospitals aboard, so you have medical capabilities
- 16:06Speaker 2: that we just sail around and we can help. The
- 16:09Speaker 2: other thing is the Army corp of Engineers has the
- 16:11Speaker 2: ability to go into a place like Venezuela with the
- 16:14Speaker 2: earthquakes and immediately start building bridges and docks and ports
- 16:20Speaker 2: and infrastructure that can be put up in an hour,
- 16:24Speaker 2: put up in a day to help these people. We
- 16:26Speaker 2: have communications capabilities. One of the biggest problems in any
- 16:29Speaker 2: national disasters. Group A can't communicate with Group B, and
- 16:33Speaker 2: we have those capabilities which we can do. You know,
- 16:36Speaker 2: when the Venezuela earthquakes struck in, President Trump's first instinct
- 16:39Speaker 2: was how do I help? What can America do to
- 16:42Speaker 2: help you? I thought, whoa, Venezuela. You made some really
- 16:45Speaker 2: smart decisions a few months ago when we snatched Maduro
- 16:49Speaker 2: and then the remaining officials of the Venezuelan government said, okay,
- 16:54Speaker 2: we're going to work with America. Now, how can we
- 16:56Speaker 2: work together and ser that whole country which was should
- 17:00Speaker 2: have been one of the ricist countries in the world,
- 17:02Speaker 2: and in horrible poverty because of the corruption and mismanagement
- 17:06Speaker 2: of the communist socialist Maduro and his thugs. Now the
- 17:10Speaker 2: United States is in a position where we're helping Venezuela
- 17:13Speaker 2: every single day. Can you imagine if you're an average
- 17:16Speaker 2: Venezuelan you should be so happy and so proud of
- 17:20Speaker 2: your new relationship with America.
- 17:21Speaker 1: Exactly.
- 17:22Speaker 2: I mean.
- 17:22Speaker 1: The timing of this is, this will save so many
- 17:25Speaker 1: thousands of lives. The fact that the United States does
- 17:27Speaker 1: not have to jump through the hoops that it would
- 17:29Speaker 1: have had to have jumped through to provide this aid
- 17:31Speaker 1: just a couple of months ago. So again, bringing it
- 17:34Speaker 1: full circle, be proud of this country. We are the
- 17:37Speaker 1: most charitable and proactively helpful country in the history of
- 17:41Speaker 1: the world. Not perfect, but please be proud of this country.
- 17:44Speaker 1: We're proud to have you on here. Katie MacFarland, thank
- 17:46Speaker 1: you so much. Have a great weekend and a early
- 17:49Speaker 1: happy two hundred and fifth birthday, America.
- 17:51Speaker 2: Thank you, Happy four in July.
- 17:54Speaker 4: Take care kath next week.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Did It's right almost, dear God, and gasoline will be
- 17:58Speaker 1: a lot cheaper by then too, so that great.
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